T206s sharing the same sheet position

[t206hound]

I believe that Steve B has done some research on this as it relates to some of the lower population cards in an attempt to determine the number of occurrences of a player/pose on a sheet. Before reading about it, I never gave the approach much thought. I have a few Rossman P350s, two of which are two-namers (with McBride at top).

So, I looked at those two cards to see if I could see any print "anomaly" that was common amongst them. This was tougher than I thought, but I believe I spotted two little marks on his right shoulder that appeared on both of them, but only one of my other P350s had them. I couldn't find anything else to "uniquely" identify this card.

I know its probably not certain, but I'm thinking that this third Rossman was in the same sheet position and (had it not been properly cut) would have McBride above.

Thoughts?

[steve B]

I'd say that's probably correct. The only thing that I'd check is the registration mark at the center of the lower border. On the two two name cards it looks like it's faint and actually two marks. On the normally cut one it appears more solid. They're probably the same , since the two two name cards have gray shifted slightly left. So if the registration marks are gray and another color it would look doubled.

How do the backs compare? If there's a flaw on the back that's consistent for all three that's a another point in favor of it being an identifiable position.

Being occasionally uncreative I'd track it as Rossman/back//position A
The blank space being a placeholder for the probable print run - RunA, run B, etc

Steve B

[t206hound]

I thought that I had posted the backs... the interesting thing is that while I find four common back features to these three cards, the same back features appear on half of my Rossman P350s:

[t206hound]

my latest Rossman acquisition also exhibits the front and back marks

[steve B]

The thick spot in the outer border over the S in baseball is pretty much common to almost all Piedmont 150's and 350's. Probably on the master they would have worked from.

The others look promising.

Steve B